i have absolutely no background in design but i am extremely proficient at creating old-school pixel-based artwork and animation - a skill i developed back in the late 80s and early 90s during stints doing artwork for shareware and low-end retail game development as well as for my own custom interfaces for various programs I developed for Atari GEM (an early, single-task window manager similar to the original Mac OS).
that experience has proved extremely valuable as i had to work under significant design constraints from minimalist color palettes to limited screen resolution and I still rely upon the knowledge i accumulated when dealing with various restrictions imposed by today's platforms. one can look back at the wealth of 80s and 90s GUI-based apps for both good (and bad) ideas of how to deal with interface problems. On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:54:33, Eric Gauvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the designer part, it goes way back to a childhood interest in > drawing. Later came an interest in the graphic design field via a > fascination with the non-photo blue pencil, which I thought was > really neat and opened up all kinds of magical possibilities of > precision. Then came Quark (even better than a non-photo blue pencil) > and I worked as a production artist at advertising agencies and > wondered why art directors couldn't really use quark for what it was > intended for. Next, came the web and, and there was even more of a > need for people who could understand both the technical and the > artistic sides. For me, the UI is the perfect overlap of these two > worlds. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23679 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- -------------------------------------------------- www.flyingyogi.com -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
